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Wilmette police arrested two men in separate incidents Feb. 26 and 28 and charged them with possessing stolen vehicles and other crimes, including several stemming from earlier Wilmette house and auto burglaries, police said. Both arrests were triggered by citizen complaints that were not related to the events for which the two were charged, Wilmette Police Chief Brian King said March 2. Police arrested Levertis C. Williams, 22, of the 1400 block of Grey Street in Evanston, just before 6 a.m. Feb. 26 on the 500 block of 7th Street, after officers responded to a complaint from a neighbor about a suspicious man trying to open the doors of cars parked on the block, police said. Williams...

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Wilmette police arrested two men in separate incidents Feb. 26 and 28 and charged them with possessing stolen vehicles and other crimes, including several stemming from earlier Wilmette house and auto burglaries, police said.Both arrests were triggered by...

Two men were arrested and charged in Northlake Saturday after police said they found marijuana, money and a gun in a hidden compartment in a car.A Northlake police officer said he saw two men in a car on the 100 block of Golfview Drive at 4:40 p.m. Feb....

One of three men implicated in the gang-related stabbing death of a Wheaton man was sentenced to 17 years in prison Tuesday.Anthony Rios, 20, of West Chicago, agreed to plead guilty to armed violence and accept the sentence in exchange for prosecutors...

Drew Peterson waived a preliminary hearing Tuesday in a surprise move that prevented prosecutors from publicly airing details of his alleged murder-for-hire plot.Instead, Peterson entered a not guilty plea and asked to schedule his trial as soon as...

Charges have been upgraded to five felonies against Kirk Waishwell, accused of smashing a dozen vehicles' windows Feb. 9 at a LaGrange Highlands preschool.
Waishwell, 38, of the 5700 block of Vial Avenue in LaGrange Highlands, was taken into custody Feb....

Authorities charged a man in connection with the death of a 2-year-old boy who died of methadone toxicity in summer of 2014.
Reginal Brown, 36, was charged with a felony count of endangering the life of a child, according to a statement from the...

The secretary of state's office is stepping up reminders to police to mail in DUI paperwork after a Tribune investigation that found bureaucratic errors regularly helped drunken drivers avoid mandatory license suspensions.
The agency, which oversees...

A sophisticated burglary ring that identified high-value targets across the nation, then struck with lightning speed and precision, has been implicated in a rash of daytime burglaries reported last fall in Darien, according to the city's top cop.
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A Mundelein teenager is expected to be sentenced Tuesday afternoon in a Lake County juvenile court for the murder of her 11-year-old sister.
The girl, who was 14 when she was accused more than a year ago of killing her sister, Dora Betancourt, pleaded...

Aurora officials are working to document the conditions inside the old Copley Hospital, which one official calls"deplorable."
The building has sat abandoned at North Lincoln Avenue and Weston Avenue in Aurora for a number of years, after the...

A Roselle man was sentenced Feb. 24 to 11 years in prison for the sexual assault of a Barrington High School student in Jan. 2014.
Tory R. Taylor, 36, was charged with the assault while working as a massage therapist at Body and Sol Salon on Northwest...

David Petraeus, the former CIA director and top Army general whose affair with his biographer brought down what many considered a bright political future, has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified materials.
The plea agreement was filed...

A Naperville man was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol following a crash involving three cars that occurred near the intersection of North Aurora Road and Route 59 Sunday night.
Jason P. Dale, 44, of the 800 block of Nelli Court, was...

Federal authorities last week returned to the home of a Chicago-area teen accused of trying to travel to join the Islamic State and seized several cellphones and computer equipment apparently belonging to his siblings who are minors and have not been...

After two months of jury selection, a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates was seated Tuesday for the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Opening statements in the case are scheduled for Wednesday.
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The following items were taken from Naperville police reports:
A snow plow backed into a support post at Walgreens, 400 block of S. Main Street, sometime between 2:13 a.m. and 4:18 a.m. on Feb. 26.
Someone gained access to a house under construction...

Cleveland's mayor apologized on Monday after the city's lawyers suggested in court documents that a 12-year-old boy who had a pellet gun when he was shot by police died as a result of his own actions.
Frank Jackson said the city's response to a federal...

An armed robbery police said happened at a Skokie hotel last month lead to the arrests of three teenagers who were later caught by police with a semi-automatic handgun.
Police said Kenneth J. Smith, 19, of the 4000 block of Bayside Drive, Palatine,...

A rash of home break-ins in the Morton Grove area during the past two months has put some residents on edge, but police said the burglary rate so far this year is nothing out of the ordinary.Morton Grove Police reported three home burglaries and two...